GURPS Infinite Worlds was named Best Roleplaying Supplement of 2005 at this year's Origins Award ceremony. Congratulations to Kenneth Hite, Mike Ford, and SJ, and to editor Andrew Hackard and illustrator Bob Stevlic, for a great piece of work! . . .
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Our office will be closed today for Independence Day. Some or all of us will be doing some or all of: getting together with families, setting off fireworks, working on the NEXT Munchkin game (the one whose title we haven't announced), mowing the lawn, and being grateful that we live in America . . .
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Two of the most popular questions which Websurfers asked to be posed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in hopes he would answer them on a live webcast, included . . .
whether he will use giant humanoid robots to defend Russia, and
what he thinks about the rising of Cthulhu. Or so we were assured earlier this week by a Reuters story . . .
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We are now caught up with the fan-created translations of GURPS Lite . . . except for two. And the Spanish one is out of our hands at the moment, but will soon be in your hands; layout is done and the translator is putting some final tweaks on it . . .
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Sealand, the self-proclaimed independent nation on an old antiaircraft platform off the English coast, recently suffered a devastating fire. Originally, Sealand appears to have been merely an exercise in cheek - "Hey, let's occupy that deserted platform before it falls down, and declare ourselves independent!" It has its own royal family, currency, and coinage, as described on its official website . . .
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Expeditious Retreat Press released the final volume in their Monster Geographica series a while back, and I've been waiting impatiently (I've been a fan since A Magical Society) for Fiery Dragon Productions to complete the Counter Collection supplement for it. The fifth and final collection (Perilous Heights) is out as of last night, so those of us at SJ Games who also run D&D campaigns (shhh!) can now better visualize tearing our players' characters apart . . . no matter what part of the world they run to . . .
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Steve Jackson Games announces for release in October, 2006:
Evil Ted
Horror has come to the happy town of Cotton Falls! The peaceful teddy bears have become . . . zombears! A few lucky survivors have barricaded themselves in the remaining buildings . . .
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If you'll recall (and why shouldn't you . . . you've had your consciousness raised, yes?), the International Trepanation Advocacy Group plumped for holes in the head, that we might better see the world around us. But what if we were the world around us? . . .
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